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Glad To Go For a Feast focuses upon Milton's intellectual contacts in Florence during his sojourn from 1638 to 1639, especially those accademici surrounding the grammarian and Dantista Benedetto Buonmattei (1581-1648), including Carlo Roberto Dati (1619-1676) and Agostino Coltellini (1613-1693). Dr. A. M. Cinquemani provides a brief life of Buonmattei as priest, scholar, and accademico as well as a discussion of Della Lingua Toscana (1623-1643) as having perhaps shaped Milton's representation of prelapsarian language in Paradise Lost. The tendencies of contemporary Florentine criticism, as suggested by the work of Buonmattei, are considered with a view to understanding the particular version of Dante to which Milton was exposed. Large portions of Della Lingua Toscana and Buonmattei's commentaries on Dante, as well as Coltellini's Tuscan Areopagitica, the Introduzione all' Anatomia (1651), are presented here for the first time in English.

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The Author: A. M. Cinquemani is Professor of English at the State University of New York (New Paltz), where he teaches seventeenth-century English Literature, including Milton, as well as European Literature. He received his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. Dr. Cinquemani has been a National Endowment for the Humanities summer fellow at Princeton, Stanford, UCLA, and Yale and has published articles on seventeenth-century English Literature and Italian Literature in various learned journals. He has edited and translated the Barunissa di Carini: Poem of the Sicilian Renaissance, and contributed chapters to Interpreting the Italian Renaissance: Literary Perspectives, edited by Antonio Toscano; Other Voices: Italian Regional Culture and Language, edited by John Staulo; and Milton in Italy: Contexts, Images, Contradictions, edited by Mario A. Di Cesare.

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